Word: celling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gunrunner Eugene Hasenfus, pardoned from a 30-year jail term in Nicaragua and carrying the key to his cell, returned to the United States yesterday, thanking God that "I was able to be free and be with my family" for Christmas...
...government was linked to the March bombing in West Berlin of the German-Arab Friendship Society offices, which left nine people injured. The trial provided a bizarre sideshow. Screaming and gesturing wildly from behind a bulletproof screen, Hasi claimed that "voices, sounds and music" were being piped into his cell to make him confess. The frenzied defendant is the brother of Nezar Hindawi, a Jordanian who was convicted in London last month of trying to blow up an El Al airliner, allegedly with Syrian help. After the conviction, Britain broke off diplomatic relations with Syria...
...Hasenfus' release depends on such an admission, the mercenary may find himself occupying a Nicaraguan prison cell for a long time. U.S. officials continue to deny any involvement in the private arms pipeline that sprang up in the two years after Congress cut off military aid to the rebels. Moreover, the Administration shows little sign of seeking accommodation with the Sandinistas. After intensive lobbying last spring, it persuaded Congress to resume direct aid to the contras. Two weeks ago the first planeloads of military supplies, bought with funds from a $100 million aid package, began flowing to the rebels...
...committed as ever to attempting to understand how the cell works and what causes it to become malignant," said Frei. "Based on that understanding, we will be able to develop new and improved treatment programs for children and adults with cancer...
...studying genes, scientists deal basically with two components: one part supplies the code for the production of a particular protein, and the other, a sort of regulatory switch, turns the protein-producing mechanism on and off. In the human body, as in all organisms, every cell contains the complete genetic code and, in theory, has the potential to serve any function. A liver cell has the instructions necessary to grow hair, for example, and a bone cell to transmit information as a nerve does. The reason these things do not happen is that the instructions -- the genes -- are switched...